On December 17, 2005, Borghezio came back into the news after
having been injured by some No Tav activists when they recognized him
aboard a train from Turin to Venice. Because of the riot, he
needed to undergo an operation for a fractured nasal septum. That
morning he had participated in a counter-protest against the NO
TAV movement in the Susa Valley.[1]

On September 11, 2007, he was arrested by Belgian police for participating in protest
against islamization of Europe.[2][3]

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Controversy and
Convictions

In 1993 he was sentenced to pay a fine of 750,000 lire for private
violence on a child in relation to an incident dating back to 1991,
when he was detained by the arm a vendor Moroccan illegally in Italy, of 12 years to
deliver it to the police.[4]

In July 2005, Borghezio was found guilty of arson, for having set fire to the pallets of some
immigrants while they were sleeping under a
bridge in Turin during a vigilante raid. For this he
was sentenced to two months and twenty days, which converted into a
fine of €3,040.[5][6]

Borghezio in Popular
Culture

Borgezio was parodized by Rai 3 State TV channel's satyrical show La
Lavanderia. The show constantly featured a section called
"Borghezio caffé". Parodyzing the sitcom CCaméra Café the skits
were rapresenting Borgezio furious for discovering his own daughter
had picked an accent from Southern Italy, thus betraying her Padania heritage.